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Personal Development Carnival

It is the time for HealthMoneySuccess.com to hold the Personal Development Carnival and I got to thanks Jeremy from Insight Writer for allowing me to have the chance.

I had gone through all the submissions to filter out articles that I think is not suitable for this carnival and here are the one that survived the screening. Enjoy!

Personal Development

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Start an Online Business: Open an eBay Store, Build a Website or Blog posted at The Digerati Life.

Warren Davies presents How to be Happier – 10 Scientifically Supported Ideas posted at GenerallyThinking.com.

Jacob Duchaine presents 10 Steps to Getting a Girlfriend posted at The Blog of Jacob Duchaine.

Stephen Martile presents How to Stay Focused When Setting and Achieving Goals posted at FreedomEducation.ca by Stephen Martile.

Jeremy Ulmer presents How To Stay Positive posted at Sales Coaching | Business Coaching | Life Coaching.

Sarah Scrafford presents 50 Surprising Ways to Boost Your Brain’s Performance posted at Online Best Colleges.com.

Kevin Ngo presents How to Change Your Focus posted at Motivational Blog.

Stephen Mills presents Don’t Fake Yourself Into Failure and Unhappiness posted at The Rat Race Trap.

Vincent presents 15 Valuable Lessons We Can Learn From World Champions posted at Health Money Success.

Relax presents How to apply German work ethics in your life posted at The Wise Curve.

Kara-Leah Grant presents Enough of the doom & gloom! We are in a time of great transformation, can we grab the opportunity it represents? posted at Prana Flow NZ.

Personal Finance

Beth Dargis presents Save Hundreds of Dollars this Month posted at My Simpler Life – Simple Living.

Jason Sharp presents Living a Jobless Life (Financial Freedom) posted at International Insider.

~Dawn presents Free Coin Counting Alternatives posted at Frugal For Life.

Celestine presents Passion or Money? posted at EmbraceLiving.Net.

CreditCardAssist.com presents Protecting Seniors Against Credit Card Fraud posted at CreditCardAssist.com.

vh presents A Close Brush with Financial Disaster posted at Funny about Money.

Destroy Debt presents Debt Snowball, Highest Interest Debt First, or Avalanche posted at Destroy Debt.

jim presents How I Busted My Email Addiction posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.

Debbie Ducker presents Your Children and Grandchildren Must Learn to Save Money posted at Ducker Promotion Ezine.

Mr. Banker presents Banking Online Safety Tips posted at Best Interest Rate Banks.

Nate presents 12 Ways to Waste Money in College posted at Debt-free Scholar.

Steve Patterson presents Don?t Take Your Losses! posted at 2009 Taxes.

David Harris presents Losing Weight (On a Budget) posted at David on Finance.

Tristan presents Frugal Living Tips To Beat The Recession posted at Find Financial Freedom.

The Shark Investor presents I’ve Never Used a Consumer Credit In My Life posted at The Shark Investor.

Mr. CC presents It Can?t Hurt To Ask posted at Ask Mr Credit Card’s Blog.

DR presents 2009 Economic Stimulus Package FAQs posted at The Dough Roller.

The Smarter Wallet presents Investing In The Stock Market? Rules To Help You Sleep At Night posted at The Smarter Wallet.

Personal Health

Cyndi Krupp presents A boat called freedom part 1 | Evolution Ezine posted at Evolution Ezine.

Bill Urell presents Teen Drug Abuse: 7 Warning Signs Your Teen Might Be Using Drugs posted at Addiction Treatment Challenges.

Aparna presents Why scratching an itch provides relief and home remedies to relieve itching posted at Beauty and Personal Grooming.

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Personal Development Carnival (16th March 2009)

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Why Do You Need To Learn About Public Speaking

What is public speaking? It is not just speaking to large audiences, instead we are doing public speaking everyday. Talking to our friends, family, in an interview or colleagues are all part of public speaking and it is definitely a skill that we need to have.

Public speaking or death? Surprisingly people fear public speaking more than death. People found themselves trembling with fear whenever they are called up to speak.

You may think that why don’t we just give up public speaking and that will solve the problem but have you noticed that successful people are always giving out speeches? If you give up on public speaking, that will also mean that you are giving up a huge chunk of your potential to be successful.

Get Applause Now!

Get Applause Now! is created by Andrew Rondeau and public speaking champ, Darren Lacroix. It consist of a 64 pages ebook and 3 audios. (Humor 101,Free to fee, and How to write a winning speech)

Andrew Rondeau has his own business and is a best-selling author and he gets to travel and speak all over the world and Darren Lacroix is a public speaking champ and he won the public speaking competition with 25,000 contestant participating.

You should visit his website and see the videos of him giving presentation. He is fantastic!

What I like about Get Applause Now!

The ebook covers from the start of planning the presentation to delivering the speech and closing. Specific questions that can help enhance your preparation, delivery, post delivery are listed in bullet points so that you can run through it easily. Basically it is just like a check list that you can check through to help you enhance your presentation.

The format is very simple and easy to follow and there are action plans that you can use to help you keep track of your progress. There are also 3 podcast which runs for 300 plus minutes that teaches you how to write a winning speech, injecting humor into your presentation and also how to be more skillful in your presentation that you can charge others a fee for it.

What I don’t like about Get Applause Now!

1. The content is simplified to a short 64 pages ebook and I actually finished the book in around 10 minutes. It may be a good thing also because this ebook is word efficient but that may also mean that some of the important concepts are under explained.

2. Lack of videos. I believe videos of great speeches should be included to let us learn more from successful presentations.

3. Just reading the ebook and listening to the podcast can increase your knowledge of public speaking but not necessary increase your skill of presentation because reading and doing is totally different. It will be great if video conferencing is included for members so they can do a pseudo public speaking via the conference.

Who Should Buy Get Applause Now!

For people who want to start improving their public speaking and just want a product to help them kick start their learning journey, this is the product for you. The tips are practical and helpful and the action plan definitely help to make sure that you are on the right track. One ebook with 300 plus minutes of podcast for a price of only $39.95, it is considered a good buy for the value it provides.

I do think that Get Applause Now! is worth studying and learning from and it comes with a 60 days money back so you can get your money back if you are not satisfied with the value it provides. Therefore there are no risks involved.

Get Applause Now! order page.

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

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So Little Time, So Many Things

The pace in the world is getting faster and faster and everyone seem to be running around frantically to get things done but things that need to be done seem to be multiplying yet 24 hours feel like a mere 24 minutes instead.

Introduction to Stress

During our ancestors time, they are really glad that they can feel stressful because when humans faced threats, our body defense will be kicked into high gear which is a “fight or flight” response. This is a very useful attribute because they are living with threats like tigers or lions around them and the “fight or flight” response definitely aid their survival.

During those days ,stress will kick in when one was faced with physical threats, but In  the modern days, the stress that help our ancestors to run away from tigers and lions seems to be happening much more often. Does it mean that we have more tigers and lions chasing us all around and the zoo in the world seems to lack enclosures for our predators?

No, that isn’t the case. I would say the old triggers of stress (tigers and lions) are gone and here come the new triggers.

1. Filing your tax

2. Caring for the elderly or kids despite of your heavy work load.

3. Arguments

4. Deadlines

5. Bills

Some maybe see a bill with much more fear than seeing a tiger. All these are the new predators that will trigger our “fight or flight” response and we are facing a lot more of these situations than compared to facing a physical threat. This mean that our body is consistently in an overdrive mode and all these prolonged activation of the stress response will take a heavy toll on our body which may cause heart disease, chronic pain, high blood pressure and much more undesirable health conditions.

15 Ways To Deal With Stress

Here comes the 15 tips to help you deal with stress.

1.Mind your words - Change words such as “I have to” to “I choose to.” Put yourself back in control and remove negative words such as “have to” will help you to reduce the pressure and stress level. Even the worst tasks seem better when we choose to do it instead of being forced into doing it.

2. Learn to say no - Taking up too many tasks and try to make yourself slog through a list that even superman will say no to just isn’t worth it. Learn to say no to tasks that can be done better by others and decline assisting in other tasks when you are occupied by tasks that you have not completed yet.

3. Look at the bright side - Don’t keep dwelling on how bad things are going to be. Look at the bright side of life. Dwelling in negativity will only sap your energy and demoralize you. Focus on the good things you can think of your tasks, like recognition or the sense of achievement when you completed your task.

4. Breathe deeply - Take a minute off from your work, close your eyes and breathe deeply. Do a few counts of deep breathing and see your stress level reduced almost immediately.

5. Take a walk – Get out of your chair and take a walk in a nearby garden or somewhere close to nature. Forget about your work for a moment and enjoy the nature.

6. Set realistic goals – Set goals that are able to stretch you but not enough to burn you up. Setting goals should be able to challenge you, just make sure you don’t pile unnecessary stress on yourself with unrealistic goals.

7. Ask for help – Delegate, outsource or ask a fellow colleague for help. 2 brains are better than 1 and 3 brains are better than 2. If you are running a business, it doesn’t make sense if you are running everything yourself. Outsource the non core tasks to others that have the specialize skills to do it even better than you.

8. Celebrate – Celebrate your mini milestones that you reached. Once you completed an important task, take a break from it and do a mini celebration and have a small reward for yourself. You will be more refreshed and motivated to do your next task.

9. Focus – Don’t multi task and try to do multiple things at the same time. It is unnecessary burden and most probably multi tasking doesn’t help in producing quality tasks.

10. Have a toy - Stress balls are manufactured for a reason. Yes, reducing stress! Put them at your work desk and play with them when you need it. Playing with it help to reduce anxiety and it is an excellent outlet to let go of negative energy that you had stored up.

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**I do not recommend this toy**

11. Sleep – Do not sacrifice sleep to churn out more work. What is worst than working with someone who is lacking in sleep and have a bad temper. Sacrificing sleep just aggravate your stress level. Get adequate shut eye and allow your body to work in optimal condition.

12. Exercise – Stop your work and do some exercises. It help to reduce your stress remarkably when you are exercising and it helps to move your focus off your work.

13. Don’t sweat the small stuff – Sometimes a little screw up is fine and we need do not need to be stressed over it. Just let it go and try to work it out.

14. Don’t be extreme – Don’t use words like “always” or “every time.”Extreme words will cause extreme reactions that do not help the situation and it just make the matter worst. “He screw it up every time” is an example of an extreme reaction. Slow down and think, did he really screw up every time? Probably no.

15. Laugh – Too stressed up in life? Catch a comedy and laugh your heart out. Can you look at the right and the left at the same time? That is the same as being stressful while laughing at the same time. So laugh more and allow your laughter to overcome stress.

When you are stressed up, just try to apply some of these tips to help bring down your stress level. Thanks for reading and have a good time relaxing!

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Cheers

Vincent

Personal Development Blogger

**P.S** What are your triggers that lead to stress? Exams? Work? Bills? How you overcome them? Share with us in the comment section, it will be greatly appreciated.

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